{"id":29721,"date":"2025-09-21T19:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/29721\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:51:11","slug":"baby-red-panda-celebrates-international-red-panda-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/29721\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby red panda celebrates International Red Panda Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (7News)  \u2014 Today is International Red Panda Day, and the National Zoo is celebrating with its baby cub.<\/p>\n<p>The cub is a girl and has light-colored fur that will darken with age, according to the Smithsonian\u2019s National Zoo &amp; Conservation Biology Institute.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO | <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/union-station-washington-dc-control-federal-amtrak-transportation-safe-clean-financial-stable-management-federal-oversight-passenger-redevelopment-police-security\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/union-station-washington-dc-control-federal-amtrak-transportation-safe-clean-financial-stable-management-federal-oversight-passenger-redevelopment-police-security\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Federal government takes greater control of Union Station in new agreement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cub\u2019s first-time mother Keahi, is attentive and protective of her cub, while the father, Rocket, is not involved whatsoever, according to the Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>The little cub will stay with her mother until spring or summer 2026, zoo officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Red pandas are an endangered species and the only living member of the family aiuridae. Despite the fluffy critter\u2019s name, it is not closely related to the Giant black-and-white Pandas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 Today is International Red Panda Day, and the National Zoo is celebrating with its baby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[25540,2592,3946,85,25538,46,25541,25539,25537,5381,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-29721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-baby-cub","9":"tag-conservation","10":"tag-endangered-species","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-international-red-panda-day","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-keahi","15":"tag-national-zoo","16":"tag-red-panda","17":"tag-rocket","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}